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Seared Tuna Sweet Potatoes Anna 2008-03-07 17:02:41
Each Friday, InterWined.com pairs one great wine with one great meal and publishes the results along with the recipe in a little feature it likes to call ‘Blow the Bank’.
This week, ‘Blow the Bank’ brings you InterWined’s Own Seared Tuna Sweet
Potatoes Anna.
For myriad reasons left unexplored here, potatoes Anna has something of a reputation for being a complicated dish. Yet, sometimes the most complicated seeming dishes are actually the most straight-forward to prepare. That’s certainly the case with InterWined’s Own recipe for Sweet Potatoes Anna.
Paired with InterWined’s Own Seared Tuna Sweet Potatoes Anna, the recently reviewed 2003 Ronco del Gnemiz Tocai Friuliano. While the wine received the poorest review of the Ronco del Gnemiz wines featured in January on
Beginning with Barbera 2008-03-06 04:28:58 Today is the first taste of the wine tour of Italy, undertaken by InterWined in order to try to get a better handle on why Italian things make book authors cry.
So it seems only fitting to start with the popular, and often mass produced wines made from the Barbera
grape. Wines made from Barbera strike [...]
Wine Blogging Wednesday — Comfort Wine 2008-03-05 04:07:58 Whether it be a bottle of champagne served in celebration or a simple glass of table wine poured to help end a miserably long day, InterWined.com believes in the power of wine to mark each and every occasion as unique. It’s just one of ways that we find life and wine intertwine.
So, when Joel of [...] Read more:Wine Blogging Wednesday
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Health Beat: You Heart What You Eat 2008-03-04 03:10:38 Several popular diets focus on getting a person to look better, but it’s important to remember that the best actions are those beneficial over the long-term. Don’t start slurping cabbage soup to detox, unless you plan on making it a habit for the next few decades.
Drinking wine in little to moderate amounts several days a [...] Read more:Heart
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Don’t Cry for Me, Italia 2008-03-03 05:18:10 During the Andre Simon food and drink book awards weeks ago, author John Dickie won a special commendation for his epic tribute to Italia
n food, Delizia. InterWined admits unfamiliarity with this expansive subject, other than the many trips to Italy where vast amount of this food was consumed — normally with a greater attention to [...]
Black Cherry Chocolate Palmiers 2008-02-28 19:36:16
Each Friday, InterWined.com pairs one great wine with one great meal and publishes the results along with the recipe in a little feature it likes to call ‘Blow the Bank’.
This week, ‘Blow the Bank’ brings you InterWined’s Own Black
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Chocolate
Palmiers.
The great European palmier might be the most simple little snack imaginable — given what little effort and time they require. They might also be one of the most versatile. They can easily accommodate most sweet and savoury fillings from jams and preserves to cheeses and thinly-sliced cuts of meat.
Many traditionalists consider palmiers simple coffee candy, something meant to help you kick start the day on this long-run February. Yet, why limit it to pairing with a simple morning cup of java? Why not let it help end yo
Men, Give the Mulivitamins a Skip 2008-02-28 09:05:53 Although physician-scientists and supplement manufacturers are often at odds, they don’t spend much time sparring over multivitamins. In fact, half the physicians on the Harvard Men’s Health Watch advisory board report taking a multivitamin themselves. In recent years, Harvard Men’s Health Watch has also endorsed these popular supplements, reasoning that even if they don’t help, [...]
Back to Bonarda 2008-02-27 04:46:57 At Oddbins wine retail, there is an OK selection of Bonarda wines for under £10. It's not that the Oddbins guys picked poorly, but more that the overall selection of Bonarda worldwide is, well, kind of lackluster. The 2006 Familia Zuccardi Reserva is an exception. It's light in body. Lighter than you’d think given the dark color this grape exudes. There is some violet and red current and aromatic India spice, but it's still too young to drink, since the swallow is kind of harsh. But at £8, this is a 'drink me now' wine. Not one for the cellar. InterWined.com doesn't like drink-me-nows that aren't ready: 8.4 today, 8.7 in two years — if anyone cares to cellar a £8 Bonarda for that long.
In InterWined's opinion, Bonarda is better as a blending grape, especially with its Argentine
Wine Book Club #1: Vino Italiano 2008-02-26 04:41:11 For the inaugural session the Wine Book Club, David McDuff McDuff’s Food & Wine Trail selected Vino Italiano: The Regional Wines of Italy by Joseph Bastianich and David Lynch, first published by Clarkson N. Potter in the United States in 2002 and reprinted in paperback by Random House three years later.
At 518 pages (includes 130 [...]
Know Thy Vintage: a first taste of 2005 Bordeaux 2008-02-25 15:11:09 For most of us, getting our hands on the best of the 2005 vintage in Bordeaux
is unlikely; the price of this exceptional vintage is well out of reach in the higher echelons of wine production.
For InterWined.com’s standard, that is only rating wines worth drinking, usually in the £5 to £10 range, 2005 Bordeaux would [...] Read more:taste
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Monfish Mexican Rice 2008-02-22 14:11:36
Each Friday, InterWined.com pairs one great wine with one great meal and publishes the results along with the recipe in a little feature it likes to call ‘Blow the Bank’.
This week, ‘Blow the Bank’ brings you InterWined’s Own Monkfish Mexican
Rice (Arroz con Rape).
For those whose experience of Mexican rice is limited to Old El Paso and Taco Bell, InterWined’s Own dish might seem more accurately described as Spanish paella. After all, when was the last time that you saw monkfish on the menu at a Mexican restaurant in the United States? Even Wahoo’s Fish Tacos — regardless of its name might suggest ‐ serve relatively little fish.
But, fish is an integral part of much Mexican cuisine — how could it not be with nearly six thousand miles of coastline. And, whi
The week that was — with a health tip 2008-02-22 05:20:52 Rough week, loads of fun, lots of activity.
Meeting wine book author, Eric Arnold, served as a highlight and he seems to have enjoyed our dinner with friends of InterWined. His thoughts on that are brief:
“Man I was hammered. I barely remember eating my tasty lamb tongue.”
It was tasty. However, our promised audio interview didn’t work [...]
Know Thy Vintage 2008-02-21 07:21:47 OK, so Eric Arnold didn’t win the Andre Simon award for best drinks-related book on Tuesday night and it has taken two days to fully recover.
But, that’s OK, as we drowned our sorrows at the bar with a bottle of Bollinger.
We later ate dinner with a group of friends at St. John. The menu included [...] Read more:Vintage
In Conversation with Awesome Author Eric Arnold Part 1 2008-02-18 19:30:02 Welcome to the fourth edition of 'InterWined in Conversation
' with our guest Eric Arnold
, author of First Big Crush, nominated for the 2007 Andre Simon Book Awards.
Stay tuned, because, tonight, InterWined.com will be recording a special live interview with Eric at St. John's in London to celebrate or commiserate the results.
Warning: the following interview contains offensive language unsuitable for anyone with any modicum of taste.
Further warning: the above warning is simply a ploy to get you to read the whole interview, which is pretty damn good. Read more:Author
Wait for It — a look at the week ahead 2008-02-18 13:38:59 What’s with InterWined.com these days?
Well, what started with a power cut ended with a nasty cold…but now InterWined is back in action and ready to go with a week dedicated to the best in wine and food.
First up, an ‘InterWined in Conversation’ double-bill with 2007 Andre Simon Book Award nominee Eric Arnold, starting with the [...] Read more:ahead
You’re Gonna Pay! 2008-03-12 08:55:42 It’s official, InterWined readers; moments ago Alastair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the UK Treasury, raised our taxes on wine.
The taxes are raised by six percent for 2008, with a two percent rise every year after. So, that translates to a 14 pence rise in tax per bottle. UK wine retailer Zelas said [...]
The Italian Job 2008-03-12 04:28:44 My, aren’t decent Italian
wines on the expensive side?
Well, if you are looking for some wines to move you to the point of tears, money should be no object, right?
The 2003 Laurentina Rosso Piceno ‘Talliano’ is priced at around £11.50. The wine doesn’t feel as heavy as I thought, as the 70% Montepulciano gives it [...]
Health Beat: Eat Your Broccoli! 2008-03-11 05:38:41 Anyway, that’s the advice from UCLA researchers who have found that a chemical in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables may hold a key to restoring the body’s immunity, which declines as we age.
Published in this week’s online edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the study findings show that sulforaphane, a chemical in [...] Read more:Health
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The Best Italian Wines Start With ‘B’ 2008-03-13 05:25:08 The star so far on InterWined’s trip around Italian
wine is without doubt the 2003 Barolo San Biagio.
Classed as a Piemont wine (from Piedmont, NorthWest Italy), this wine is made from the Nebbiolo grape. I recommend visiting Barolo San Biagio, only because the winery’s tasting note is so different from mine; a testament to [...] Read more:Wines
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The Best Italian Wines Start With ‘B’ – Part 2 2008-03-19 11:28:20 This time around, we are going only about ten miles away from last week’s Italian
wine Barolo. That’s right we are going a bit closer to the sea with Barbaresco – the Nebbiolo-based wine that is often lighter and easier to drink than Barolo.
In this case, 2001 Cuscina Surio is a great example. It’s more [...] Read more:Wines
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Exercise in the Right Environment 2008-03-18 09:03:28 The neighborhoods people live in can help inspire – or discourage – their residents to exercise and keep physically active, new research suggests.
Residents of neighborhoods with higher levels of poverty, lower education, and more female-headed families are less likely than others to exercise, according to the study.
It’s not simply that poorer people are less likely [...] Read more:Exercise
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Rosemary Rack of Lamb with Dolcelatta Polenta 2008-03-21 06:38:28
Each Friday, InterWined.com pairs one great wine with one great meal and publishes the results along with the recipe in a little feature it likes to call ‘Blow the Bank’.
This week is a busy one for the world religions, from Baha’i to Zoroastrianism and nearly every other alphabetically in between.
So, today, ‘Blow the Bank’ brings the world a little closer together with InterWined’s Own Rosemary
Rack of Lamb with Dolcelatta Polenta.
Not only does Easter, Purim, and Mawlid an-nabi fall within the third week of March this year, but so too does the Vernal Equinox and a host of New Years and religious Spring festivals. And while there is no single food that could satisfy the observers of all of these holidays, there’s certainly one that comes pretty close — at least clo
Getting there… 2008-03-20 05:28:04 Wine number five from InterWined’s tour of Italian wines is the 2003 Feotto dello Jato ‘Rosso di Turi’ Monreale Merlot.
A plump little Sicilian number with surges of sugar plum. Sweet little California raisins here and there as well. This wine dances with black currant. Not very Italian, but still quite fun and bright. Many Sicilian [...]
Health Tuesday: Beef Jerky and Being Jerked Around (?) 2008-03-25 05:50:05 Are you making $30,000 a month writing your blog? I know I am!
But seriously, some guys claim to be raking in that much dough… and they even let us in on the secrets to gilding one’s blog. Could a wine blog ever be so lucrative? Some more popular wine sites may already claim such [...] Read more:Health
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In Fair Verona 2008-03-27 06:33:12 The search continues for the great Italian wine.
The bad news is today that search has yet to end.
The 2003 San Giorgio Boscaini Carlo Amarone della Valpolicella Classic (DOC): From the Veneto region of North East Italy, where Verona
is the capital, Amarone della Valpolicella is produced from a small percentage of grapes grown in the [...]
Pear Pithivier 2008-03-28 17:51:45
Each Friday, InterWined.com pairs one great wine with one great meal and publishes the results along with the recipe in a little feature it likes to call ‘Blow the Bank’.
This week, ‘Blow the Bank’ brings you InterWined’s Own Pear Pithivier.
With so much religious observation last week, InterWined thought it was time for a little secular celebration and decided on the seemingly areligious little French pithivier. At least, that was the intention, until InterWined remembered its other name — la Galette des Roisor cake of the kings.
In other words, the exotic — indeed urbane and cosmopolitan sounding — pithivier is in fact good old, provincial, Catholic king cake made to commemorate three kings’ day and the epiphany.
And, while it might not look like the multi-colo
Liquid for Thought 2008-04-01 04:44:18 Welcome to Health News Tuesday, where InterWined.com brings you the latest in health tips for everyday living. Today we have…nothing.
But that’s not to say we don’t have anything… It’s just against ethics to release the information today. And if I tell you, then the people who told me are going to be, like, “We told [...] Read more:Liquid
A Chinese Wine for Olympians 2008-03-31 06:24:57 The run up to the 2008 Olympics is Beijing is marred by protests. The issues surrounding the news images have a particularly deep impact on me, as a one-time student of the language, history and follower of the religions of the region.
The central authority of China is often described by scholars as an iron fist [...] Read more:Chinese
Bad News for Brunello di Montalcino Update 2008-04-04 13:41:29 An article in Reuters claims the Brunello scrutiny is in response to claims of tainted wine in the low end of the makret. While I hope none of you would pay £2 for a bottle of Brunello… this development underlines why InterWined.com only review wines that are priced above £5. Anything cheaper, we feel, can [...] Read more:Update
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Bad News for Brunello di Montalcino 2008-04-03 05:53:30 A political battle over the regulation of Italy’s famed Brunello di Montalcino has blocked the shipment of hundreds of thousands of bottles of wine and effectively holds the region’s leading producers hostage in a paperwork prison. Brunello di Montalcino is a popular wine from Tuscany, though it is unloved by some, for its smooth tannin [...] Read more:Bad News
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